PC struggling on CPU-intensive games

[Alir99]

Hello, I had purchased my PC a couple of years ago and although it's still running pretty much most games at max quality, it suffers a bit with CPU-intensive games. The specs are at the bottom. Since I'm not that knowledgeable with PCs, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on upgrades. I'm not sure if it's even the CPU or ram, so any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready CPU: Intel Core i7 Eight Core Processor i7-9700K (3.6GHz) 12MB cache RAM: 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2x8GB) GPU: 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready! Storage: 1x 2TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 550MB/sR | 520 MB/sW) and 1x 250GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W) Power: CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Processor Cooling: CoolerMaster Hyper 212X (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler Black Edition

 

[Tetras]

Shouldn't really be struggling with anything, which games are you playing (that are problematic) and at what resolution?

 

[Alir99]

Star Citizen (I'm aware it's early access), No Mans Sky and Squad. I have no issues with most other games

 

[Wing-Man]

Squad

the game is horrible no matter what CPU you run, its not your system.
the devs have hacked the game engine up so badly, changing in game setting make no difference
i have this game and max out at about 70FPS. other games im hitting my limit of 144

Star Citizen

(I'm aware it's early access).... there you go then

No Mans Sky

shouldnt be a problem with your CPU, and you loading up the GPU? if you use an overlay when gaming you can see CPU / GPU usage
you want gpu at 100% and CPU under... say 80% if it the other way round you need to crank GFX setting

 

[lsg1r]

Resolution and game settings is the key factor here. I'd also argue the cpu is more on the low end for those games.

Star Citizen for example is multithreaded and it's entirely possible that you've just not go enough grunt for it, even with 8 cores...or it could just be due to it being early access.
No Mans Sky seems to need some hacks to enable multithreading (not played it so no idea if built in now)

 

[Alir99]

Oh sorry, forgot to mention I'm playing them at 1080p. Looking into a better monitor to upgrade btw. But yeah, it's mostly these 3 games. I made a post on another websites for advice and was told that I might need to replace the CPU, motherboard, aswell as upgrading to 32gb ram on one site while another site told me to upgrade my processor cooler. So just a bit confused on the matter lol.

 

[pastymuncher]

To rule out throttling what are your temps like. Have you run MSI Afterburner while playing your games so that you can check on cpu and gpu usage and temps?

 

[Wing-Man]

CPU, motherboard, aswell as upgrading to 32gb

nope, a 9700k can play the games end off really.

To rule out throttling what are your temps like.

this could be the problem depending on what cooler you have then chips did run hot.

but i would think its a setting problem with 2 of the games, but squads is just a bad game, i play it and its the same for ever ones
i upgraded from a 7700k and got nothing extra, it likes fast cores not lot of cores so you cpu is fine

 

[Alir99]

I'm just testing out Star Citizen at the moment and the temp is 57 degrees. I've noticed that my CPU utilization is around 95% while its only 35% for the GPU and I'm getting 30fps. It's already on high graphics settings.